THE ‘Save Agriculture, Save Democracy’ day on June 26 was widely observed all over India at thousands of places by lakhs of peasants and workers. June 26 marked the 46th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency in 1975 by the then Congress regime. This year, people condemned the current undeclared Emergency of the BJP regime.

THE ‘Save Agriculture, Save Democracy’ day on June 26 was widely observed all over India at thousands of places by lakhs of peasants and workers. June 26 marked the 46th anniversary of the imposition of the Emergency in 1975 by the then Congress regime. This year, people condemned the current undeclared Emergency of the BJP regime.

THE meeting convened by the prime minister with mainstream political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir – first time after the abrogation of the erstwhile state’s special status under Article 370 – has made it clear that mainstream political parties can’t be written off by caging and discrediting them with bundle of lies and slander campaigns.

MANY extraordinary things are happening in Yogiraj, Uttar Pradesh: opposition candidates prevented from filing their nominations for zilla panchayat presidentship elections, corona patients in villages being asked to sit under neem trees in order to breathe oxygen because of the unavailability of medical facilities...The most extraordinary, however, are the scandalous land deals being entered into in Ayodhya by members of the trust entrusted with the construction of the Ram Temple for which thousands of crores of rupees have been collected from devotees.On June 13, leaders belonging to the

THE Left parties had given a nationwide call for a protest fortnight from June 16 to 30 to condemn the Modi-led BJP central government for the savage and continuous price hikes of diesel, petrol, gas, cooking oil and several other essential items.The AIKS CKC had given a nationwide call to take up burning local issues of the peasantry in each state and link them up to the fundamental demands of the historic farmers’ struggle.Extended state committee online meetings of the CPI(M) and the AIKS were held separately in the first week of June.